Versecraft
By Elijah Perseus Blumov
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Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.
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"Disco Sucks"
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May 28, 2026 |
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Snap Into A Slim Hymn: The Art of Epigram Pt. 2
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May 18, 2026 |
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Kvetched in Stone: The Art of Epigram Pt. 1
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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"Bedtime Metaphysics" by Morri Creech
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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John Clare and the Madness of Poets
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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"The Night Mirror" by John Hollander
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Black Magic: Two Poems by Seamus Heaney
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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The Via Negativa of R.S. Thomas
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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The Numinous Pastorals of Robert Wells
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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"Horses on the Camargue" by Roy Campbell
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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10 Poems I Like Part IV
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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"Root Words" by Forester McClatchey
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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"In Chandler Country" by Dana Gioia
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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On Translation: "Roman Elegy V" by J.W. von Goethe
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour, Part 2
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour, Part I (feat. Cameron and Ethan)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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"Preludes to Memnon 1:4-5" by Conrad Aiken
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Singing the Counter-Revolution: Ryan Wilson Interviews EPB
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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LIVE @ St. Thomas: "The Tear" by Richard Crashaw
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Hermetic Angelology: An Interview with Ryan Wilson
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The Whole in One: An Interview with James Matthew Wilson
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Footnotes to Job: The Versecraft 100th ep AMA!
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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10 Poems I Like Part III
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Fitzgerald Strikes Back: Rothman's Rebuttal
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May 27, 2025 |
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"De Anima" by Howard Nemerov
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May 15, 2025 |
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"Bird Watcher" by Clive Wilmer (R.I.P.)
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May 01, 2025 |
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Learning the Secrets of English Verse
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The Ern Malley Hoax! (and "Monologue," by James McAuley)
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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On Translation: 5 Ways of Looking at Lope
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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"Lachrimae Antiquae Novae" by Geoffrey Hill
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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"Nor Strange It Is" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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"Kermes Red" by Melissa Range
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Cosmic Architecture feat. David Klug
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Scansion Is Boring! feat. David Klug
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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"Christmas Tree" by James Merrill
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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10 More Poems I Like
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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"An Arundel Tomb" by Philip Larkin
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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"The Education of the Blind Poet" by Cameron Clark
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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"The Last Act" by John Martin Finlay
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Receivers of the Gods: A Conversation with The Classical Outlook
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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WURSTKRAFT HOLIDAYSPEZIAL
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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"On the Anthropic Principle" by Frederick Turner
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Gloves of Mettle: An Interview with Timothy Steele
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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"Phenomena, Noumena, Startling Sparrows" by Stephen Kampa
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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The Case For Poetic Patronage
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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A Lover's Quarrel with Robert Frost
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Guardians of Matter: Timothy Steele's "Anima" and the Pathetic Fallacy
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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"Apollinian" by Amit Majmudar
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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"Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae
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May 15, 2024 |
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Folie a Deux: Laura Riding and Robert Graves
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Fulke Greville and the Rejection of Courtly Love
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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To Be Or Not: Dunbar and Juster On Suicide
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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10 Poems I Like
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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"The Marriage" by Yvor Winters
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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"Shiversong" by George David Clark
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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"Musseling" by Jan Schreiber
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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"Disobedience" by Ryan Wilson
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Imagism 3: The Thing Itself
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Imagism Pt. 2: The House That Hulme Built
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Road to Imagism, Pt. 1: 19th Century Origins
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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On Translation: Heredia et Moi
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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"The Heirloom" by Michael Donaghy
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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"Phantom V" by Don Paterson
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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"Sunlight" by Thom Gunn
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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"At Mornington" by Gwen Harwood
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The Rainbow Mythos: The Songcraft of Ronnie James Dio
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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"The Coronet" by Andrew Marvell
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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"Angle of Geese" by N. Scott Momaday
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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"The End Of The Weekend" by Anthony Hecht
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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"The Birth of God" by Daniel Brown
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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"Simple Autumnal" by Louise Bogan
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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To My Artist Friends, Part II (feat. SLEERICKETS)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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To My Artist Friends, Part I (feat. SLEERICKETS)
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Some Problems With Confessionalism
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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"Rosh Hashanah" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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"Through The Water" by James Matthew Wilson
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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"Mother Carey's Hen" by David Yezzi
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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"The Sponge" by Joshua Mehigan
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Haydn In Plain Style: An Interview With Dick Davis
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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"Athena" by Amy Clampitt
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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"Trolling For Blues" by Richard Wilbur
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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"East Coker IV" by T.S. Eliot
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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"Voyages II" by Hart Crane
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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"Eros" by Robert Bridges
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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"May My Enemy Be Assuaged" by Derek Walcott
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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What Poetry Is (And Isn't)
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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The Idea Of A Poetry Conservatory
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May 25, 2023 |
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"Funeral Doom Metal" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
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May 18, 2023 |
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"Paradise Saved" by A.D. Hope
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May 11, 2023 |
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"The Wall" by Donald Justice
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May 03, 2023 |
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"God Works In A Mysterious Way" by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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"To An Absence" by Brian Brodeur
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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"Holy Sonnet IX" by John Donne
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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"Send Forth the High Falcon" by Leonie Adams
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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"Last Rites" by Ernest Hilbert
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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"Luke Havergal" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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"Fishing" by A.E. Stallings
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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The Case For Meter and Rhyme, Part 2
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The Case For Meter and Rhyme, Part 1
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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"DMT" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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"Unholy Sonnet 16" by Mark Jarman
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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"As Kingfishers Catch Fire" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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"I Read My Sentence Steadily" by Emily Dickinson
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" by John Keats
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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"Contra Dante (Kind Of)" by Bill Coyle
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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"Paradiso XIV, 63" by Matthew Buckley Smith
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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"Epitaph" by Gwendolyn Bennett
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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"The Metaphysical Amorist" by J.V. Cunningham
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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"Marriage As A Problem of Universals" by Dick Davis
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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What Is Art? What Is It For? An Inquiry
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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"The Eclipse of Meaning" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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"La Corrida" by Robert Hayden
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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"Error Pursued" by Helen Pinkerton
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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"Hap" By Thomas Hardy
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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"Country Burial" by Janet Lewis
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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"The Course of a Particular" by Wallace Stevens
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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"Organic Bloom" by Stanley Kunitz
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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"Church Monuments" by George Herbert
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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"In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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"A Song For Rising" by Edgar Bowers
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Sep 19, 2022 |